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Getting Started with Customer Development for Your Startup

Belle Beth Cooper ● February 5th, 2013 ● Business, Marketing | Tagged customer development, customer interviews, ryan carson, steve blanks ● 1 comment
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Treehouse’s own CEO, Ryan Carson, wrote a post on the Treehouse blog recently about an experience he had of “getting out of the building.” It was one of those classic examples that all the best Customer Development books have, of …Continue reading →

Find Your Dream Job in 3 Steps

Nick Pettit ● February 1st, 2013 ● Business, Web Industry | Tagged find a job, job ● 2 comments
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A big part of our mission at Treehouse is to help our members start new careers in the tech industry. Our curriculum focuses on job-ready skills that are applicable to the real-world, and if members are interested, we’ll help them …Continue reading →

9 SEO Leaders Reveal Their Most Significant SEO Wins

Eric Siu ● January 21st, 2013 ● Business, Make a Website, Marketing, SEO, Start a Business ● 26 comments
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SEO isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s such an efficient customer acquisition channel that companies such as Amazon and Airbnb have specifically carved out SEO roles to make sure their organic search efforts are going at full speed. However, SEO …Continue reading →

Better Freelance Business Practices

Tim Smith ● January 17th, 2013 ● Business | Tagged Business, design business, freelance, freelance design ● 1 comment
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Freelancing is regarded as the holy grail in our industry. It’s something most people look to as a magical fantasy land where all dreams come true. However, being a freelancer can be very difficult if you don’t know much about …Continue reading →

Watching Your Customers is Brutal

Ryan Carson ● December 27th, 2012 ● Business, Start a Business ● No comments
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I got a haircut recently and my barber asked what I do. I explained that I’m the Founder of Treehouse and that one of our goals is to take someone with no web development skills, get them job-ready, and then …Continue reading →

Screencasts: An Easy Solution for Video Marketing

Dan Gorgone ● December 27th, 2012 ● Business, Marketing, Start a Business | Tagged marketing, screencasts, video marketing ● 1 comment
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Video is one type of content that many marketers may feel hesitant to consider when promoting their business. Nobody wants to watch a commercial, you might think, and in many cases you’re right. Add to that the barriers of video …Continue reading →

Steve Jobs’ Unfortunate Contribution to Product Development

Pasan Premaratne ● December 13th, 2012 ● Business ● 10 comments
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We’re all very well aware of Steve Jobs’ contributions to technology and society. Without Steve, and Apple, we would all be using Motorola Razors or some other “cool” phone (ah, those were the days) or tablets would be just a …Continue reading →

10 Tips for Building and Selling a Premium WordPress Theme

Zac Gordon ● December 12th, 2012 ● Marketing, Web Industry, WordPress ● 3 comments
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Selling premium WordPress themes has become a niche in and of itself for developers.  This article suggests some of the important factors to consider when developing and marketing WordPress premium themes. Research and Choose a Niche for Your Theme Often …Continue reading →

Why Not Having Enough Landing Pages Is A Critical Mistake

Eric Siu ● December 6th, 2012 ● Business, Marketing, Start a Business | Tagged conversion rate optimization, landing page optimization ● 1 comment
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If you have a few landing pages, but they aren’t coordinated and they aren’t placed on your website in any particular logical order you need to immediately fix this problem. It’s not just a matter of strategy, it’s also a …Continue reading →

10 Tips for Conquering Email

Pasan Premaratne ● December 5th, 2012 ● Business | Tagged email, productivity ● No comments
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What affects productivity at work the most? What do we spend the most time doing both during work and out of the office, that takes away from our tasks and breaks our mental flow? The answer is email. It’s a …Continue reading →

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